Rocky Jupiter #2

[bird]

Here's another one from Rockhampton, the seeing was quite good this night but I kept getting interrupted by clouds...

regards, Bird

[jjjnettie]

Look at that interaction between Jnr and GRS.
Great picture!

[sheeny]

:eyepop: Wow! very nice, Bird!

Al.

[mickoking]

Not too shabby :thumbsup: you are a master at your craft.

[iceman]

Great stuff Anthony, loads of fine detail present.

Can you tell us a bit more about the image? How many frames captured in each colour, what frame rate, and how many stacked?

What process did you apply?

Also is it just me, or does this one look oblate the wrong way? ie: it looks taller rather than wider.

[matt]

Looks the same to my eyes too Mike.:shrug:

[bird]

For this image I recorded 1 minute of data for each of luminance, red, green and blue. i.e. 4 minutes total @ 35 frames per second. I'm experimenting with some image derotation algorithms to see if I can correct for the longer imaging times, and also to see if I can use a luminance run to enhance the image. I'm starting to get acceptable results from this, I've been working on it pretty much full time since I got back from Rocky, but I think there's a bit more optimising to do.

Images were processed in registax with a gentle wavelets sharpening applied, then deconvoluted and stacked in astra image. I used the GIMP to integrate the RGB image with the luminance image.

cheers, Bird

[Robert_T]

:eyepop: a passable Bird shot:D

Beautiful. Detail and image scale is gob smacking :thumbsup:

[allan gould]

That really is a beautiful photo and shows an interaction between GRS and Red Jnr. You should submit it for publication in one of the astronomy mags

[davidpretorius]

loveley stuff bird, i am trying to work out is GRS is sucking stuff from JNR,

GRS looks like it is turning anti clockwise and hence would drag atmosphere its way. Although that brown connector has been there for many weeks